Cape Cod - Friday, October 10, 2008 12:34 - 1 Comment

Chameleon Color Changes

If you’ve ever had the perfect composition, but not the right color you’ll find Photoshop’s Hue/Saturation adjustment very handy. Maybe you have a product shot that’s perfect in every way, except one of the colors has changed or you want to make all the daisies pink instead of yellow. It doesn’t stop there because you can also desaturate and lighten sections or colorize the entire image. Plus, it can be applied as an adjustment layer with a layer mask to show or hide the changes you want.

This effect works best with large, mostly solid areas of color in high resolution files, but it’ll still work with scattered bits of color — it’ll just take a little more finesse to get it to look right.

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